# Damn you and your smarty-pants "location" entry. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 23, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068 "2004-08-23T08:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/41 "2004-08-23T17:05:14Z")
> [@Chimpy](#): > > 'cuz he’s British… duh 😛 No. I’m. Fucking. Not. I’m just sick of being taken for American. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/42 "2004-08-23T17:12:07Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > Because “Dislocated” is a funny and obscure Terry Pratchett reference. But I must say changing my location would aid (hopefully; I don’t know how many people read the location before posting) in getting people to stop assuming I’m American. > > OK, so roughly 75% of the board’s population is American. But damn it, I write “colour” and “grey” and “labour” and “defence”. I say “pavement” and “fellow” and “motorway” and “autumn”. Can’t you at least assume I’m British? Is that too much to ask? I say “autumn” too. It’s completely interchangable with “fall.” Does that make me half-British (what would that be, Canadian?)? ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/43 "2004-08-23T17:45:01Z")
> [@avabeth](#): > > I live in Ohio. It’s boring. I didn’t want my location to be boring. > > Of course, only anyone who knows the show or has read the book “Wicked” will get it, but still… > > Ava I looked at your location before I read your entry, and thought “Ooh, I get it!” Do I still get a cookie? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/44 "2004-08-23T19:06:47Z")
My location is extremely accurate. So there. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/45 "2004-08-23T19:23:19Z")
> [@Thera](#): > > Whatever. But this is my United States of Whatever. My location is quite accurate. Specifically, I live in the Empire of the Queen Goddess Zen and Princess Moonshadow. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/46 "2004-08-23T19:38:24Z")
I like to think that my location strikes a nice balance between informative and clever. I also like to think that I’m a pirate. Arrr! ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/47 "2004-08-23T19:55:53Z")
I have many locations. I’m not going to get into the whole range of my locations. My immediate locations are: US New England Massachusetts Westfield North Elm Street Work Second floor Office The front desk A chair on the 'puter. I figured that no matter where I am, as long as I’m on the computer, my location will be accurate. For instance, when I go home, I’ll be in Chicopee, on my street, my house, in the living room, the recliner, on the 'puter. See? I’m still in the same place but my location hasn’t changed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/48 "2004-08-23T19:58:36Z")
**congodwarf,** is your computer one you take with you from home to work? If not, you’re not on **the**'puter, you’re on **a**'puter. If it is the same, however, carry on. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/49 "2004-08-23T20:03:49Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > See? I’m still in the same place but my location hasn’t changed. > 😛 :smack: Damn, that didn’t make any sense at all. Make that: I’m in a different place but my location is still accurate. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/50 "2004-08-23T20:07:37Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > **congodwarf,** is your computer one you take with you from home to work? If not, you’re not on **the**'puter, you’re on **a**'puter. If it is the same, however, carry on. Geez - you’re picky. Is this better? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/51 "2004-08-23T20:22:24Z")
Having fled the city to get here, I think my location is quite apt. Of course, those damned developers keep trying to alter it to “Suburbia.” :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/52 "2004-08-23T20:42:49Z")
Like “California” is going to give anyone any meaningful information about where you live. It’s a big state, and attitudes in the north are much different than in the sweltering hell-hole that is Southeren California. With the exception of legal questions, why does location matter, anyway? Mine’s accurate to within one mile. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/53 "2004-08-23T20:43:03Z")
I’ve seen some dopers come up with some pretty clever locations. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/54 "2004-08-23T20:53:09Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > what’s so funny about Brooklyn? It’s where **World Eater** lives! Nah, seriously. It’s not really the case anymore, but back in the 1930s and '40s, “Brooklyn” was a pretty reliable punchline. See any NY-set movie from that era…_Arsenic and Old Lace_ starts out with a “hilarious” Ebbett’s Field fistfight between da Dodgahs and some other NL team, for example. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/55 "2004-08-23T21:15:15Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > It’s where **World Eater** lives! Hey it could be Brooklyn, Ohio, USA you know. Such is the enigma of my location. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/56 "2004-08-23T21:54:42Z")
I get it now. It’s only funny to old geezers. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/57 "2004-08-23T22:15:29Z")
To be honest, I never figured location was all that important for most things. If I was asking about the law, I’d probably include my location. If someone’s trying to ‘figure out’ where I’m coming from based on my geography, I’d rather they didn’t know. And, all in all, the riverruns back to Howthe Castle and Environs. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/58 "2004-08-23T22:18:23Z")
Old geezers need a good laugh once in a while too, you know. Maybe even more than you young “hep cats,” with all your Celtic tattoos and elbow rings. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/59 "2004-08-23T22:33:20Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > Because “Royal Oak, Michigan” sounds boring… so folks won’t know whose vote I’m canceling. (aside - do people still go “Woodwarding”? not that I would know this) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/60 "2004-08-23T22:57:15Z")
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